far-off

comparative more far-off · superlative most far-off

1. not comparableusuallyDistant or remote (in space, or less commonly in time).

   Near-synonyms: far-flung, faraway, distant, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant

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   Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild - and perhaps with as respectable a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209

   Synonyms: far-flung, faraway, distant, remote, distant, far, far-flung, faraway